Streets safer thanks to Drachillix :)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I had a very late night with a customer having an email problem (see GQ thread), finished up around midnight.

On my way home I come upon a car mozying along at about 35mph in a 45mph zone straddling both lanes and doing a rather erratic job of it.

I tap my horn and the driver wanders to the left lane, bumps the median pretty hard, cuts back a few feet into the right lane, wanders back over, bumps the median again before resuming his preferred position straddling both lanes.

There are 3 people in the car.

The little Ex-EMT in me can’t forgive someone that blasted/stoned/impared for any reason on the street. Called the police and backed off to follow from a couple hundred yards back. Just as I was wrapping up my description of the vehicle with the dispatcher the vehicle pulls into a Taco Bell. I relay that to dispatcher as well.

I park my truck on the far side of the TB where I can see the drive thru path and await the coming show.

As the guy gets up to the window for his food, a police car pulls into the parking lot on the far side of the shopping center. Two more follow a few seconds later.

A fourth police car darts in to the taco bell parking lot and parks.

The unguided missle now slowly leaves the drive thru lane, probably more than a little spooked by the obvious presence of 4 police cruisers.

As soon as he pulls out onto the street one of the crusiers pulls out behind him and pulls him over not 20 feet from the driveway.

Driver is removed, checked, arrested, and placed in the back of the squad car in a matter of 15 minutes.

I got a phone call from the arresting officer a few hours later asking for some more info from me and if I would be willing to appear as a witness if needed which I happily agreed to.

I eagerly await my subpeoena :cool:

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Good for you. Seeing that sort of obvious impairment in a moving car is indeed scary.

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Go You! You probably saved at least 3 lives last night, not to mention the lives of potential innocent bystanders. Good job.

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You almost certainly saved lives tonight!

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Did you find out what the citation was?
Did you learn the miscreant’s name?
Do you fear retribution? (I would have done the same thing you did, but I would have been paranoid afterward for dropping the dime.)

P.S. Way to go. :slight_smile:

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The world needs more people like you drachillix. Good on you for calling that in.

MT
(Friend and relative of several dearly departed due to drunk drivers.)

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The officer who called told me the driver was apparently intoxicated, on what was not specified. I do not know the miscreant’s name I’m sure I will find out if I am called to testify.

I was in my work truck so I didn’t show myself, my work truck is REAL OBVIOUS. I gave the dispatcher my phone number. The officer called me back. I didn’t want the person of interest or his friends seeing me talking to the officers with a big ass honda ridgeline with the name of my business splashed all over it.

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Good. Best to be discreet. Let us know if you have to testify!

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Good job. Most people would have been too timid to do that.

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Years ago I had just gotten home from Japan and - as my company always did for me - there was a driver waiting. On the way home, the driver pointed out a badly impaired driver in front of us. I told him that although I wanted to get home (that flight took me 24 hours from the time I left the hotel in Japan) I felt it was our duty to call the police.

Alas, he did not feel the same and I had no cell phone.

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Working as an EMT for a few years, 6 years amusement park operations, 2 years as a security guard for a same park with alot of hoodrat traffic, and going on 3 years running my own biz.

Timid just ain’t part of the picture.

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I always call 911 on drunk drivers and racers. Your drunken bullshit is not worth my life or anybody else’s. Not even yours.

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Nice work.

Isn’t also fun seeing the police do their job? You rarely hear about the success stories.

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Well done, Drach!

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I am the oldest living male in my family , thanks to intoxicated drivers. I am 45. I have been the oldest living male in my family since i was 3 yrs old.

My dad, my grandfather and my uncle were all returning from a fishing trip in 1964 when a drunk driver hit them at highway speeds head on. There were no survivors.

Hell yes I call in drunk drivers.

Regards
FML